Apple’s Exclusive: Apple's Tim Cook to visit China to Improve Mobile Carriers
Apple’s Exclusive: Apple's Tim Cook to visit China to Improve Mobile Carriers Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook is in Beijing this week meeting with China’s largest mobile carriers as the company faces a tougher environment in its second-largest market. Mr. Cook met with China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the carrier said. Apple’s CEO also met with officials at China Unicom (Hong Kong) on Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter said. In a statement, China’s third mobile carrier, China Telecom Corp., said Mr. Cook also met with senior managers, though it didn’t offer details. China Apple representatives did not immediately comment on the visit. Although the details of the meetings were not available, Mr. Cook, and China Mobile has repeatedly said it is in talks with Apple about the iPhone is the deal. China Mobile is the largest airline in the country's 700 million customers, but do not sell the iPhone is fully compatible with it...